The White House on Friday criticized as misleading a report in POLITICO Magazine claiming that President Barack Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius met just once since the signing of the Affordable Care Act more than three years ago.

“The published report that was written by an advocate is based on a ridiculously false premise,” White House press secretary Jay Carney said during a press briefing. “Cabinet secretaries don’t regularly get entered into the White House visitors logs, [though] they come frequently. Kathleen Sebelius comes frequently, and she meets frequently with the president.”

Without citing specific figures, Carney said it was “safe to say Kathleen Sebelius has been one of the more frequent attendees to meetings with the president.”

On Friday, POLITICO Magazine published an article by conservative writer Peter Schweizer citing a new analysis by the Government Accountability Institute, a 501 (c) (3) educational organization headed by Schweizer that says its purpose is to “investigate and expose crony capitalism, misuse of taxpayer monies and other governmental corruption or malfeasance.”

The analysis said that the president’s public schedule included no one-on-one meetings with Sebelius from July 12, 2010, to Nov. 30, 2013. The schedule did note Obama held 277 meetings with other Cabinet secretaries, POLITICO Magazine reported.

The story went on to say that based on a review of POLITICO’s daily presidential calendar during that time period, the GAI found only one meeting between Obama and Sebelius and that took place on April 21, 2010, and included then-Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.

Schweizer, who also is a fellow at the Hoover Institution, wrote that these “eye-opening calendar findings” might go some way to explaining the troubles that have plagued the rollout of HealthCare.gov.

“Perhaps the insular White House team wanted to distance the president from the bureaucratic process in the hopes of granting him a halo of deniability if the launch failed,” wrote Schweizer, noting that “Obama’s critics say his loner style makes him unusually uninterested in working with other politicians.”

The Department of Health and Human Services also pushed back against Schweizer’s report.

“Secretary Sebelius has been to the White House countless times since becoming Secretary,” HHS spokesperson Joanne Peters said in a statement. “She is frequently at the White House for meetings related to the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, including dozens with the President in the last year alone. In fact, she met with the President just yesterday.”

During Friday’s press briefing, Carney said there were no specific guidelines determining which meetings were included on the president’s public schedule.